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Makepeace Experiment

Literature & Fiction

TERTZ, Abram

Literary

Fontana Books

A persecuted Soviet author presents an autobiographical novel that attempts to explain his 1965 trial and prosecution for writing fiction under a pseudonym

Goodnight!

Penguin??Books

Andrei Sinyavsky, who writes under the pseudonym Abram Tertz, is one of the most eminent Russian literary figures of the post-Stalin period, and his Strolls with Pushkin is among the most controversial Russian literary texts of the past three decades. When first published in 1975, the book was praised by Western critics as a brilliant critical work on Pushkin, while Russian critics violently attacked it for its irreverent portrait of their country`s greatest and most beloved poet. With this first English translation, English-speaking audiences can now appreciate Tertz`s provocative portrait of Pushkin and the Russian culture for which he is the chief icon.

Strolls with Pushkin (Russian Literature and Thought Series)

Sinyavski, Andrei

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

Andrei Sinyavsky, who writes under the pseudonym of Abram Tertz, has been called by Saul Bellow "one of the most intelligent, most original, and most brilliant of contemporary writers." A noted Russian dissident, he was incarcerated from 1966 to 1971 in Soviet forced-labor camps for allowing some of his most satirical writings to be smuggled out of Russia and published in the West. This extraordinary literary work is Sinyavsky`s prison memoir. Based on letters to his wife, the diary includes Sinyavsky`s meditations on religion, sex, art, literature, and myths, the inner world to which he removed himself to escape from the degradation of prison. Interjected into these thoughts, however, are random snatches of prisoners` conversations--a "chorus" of their tales, legends, songs, and curses that evoke the horror and spiritual desolation of their existence. The result is at once an oblique evocation of prison life, a celebration of literature and art, and a tribute to the endurance of the human spirit. Originally published in 1976, A Voice from the Chorus is now available with a new preface from the author. Reviews of the original edition:"An enormously rich and stimulating collection of reflections, vignettes, and brief essays. An eloquent testimonial to the human spirit and the will to survive."--Publishers Weekly"Ranks with the famous testimonies Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn dispatched from their `houses of the dead.` This writer`s diary has a haunting, totally affecting quality, holding the reader with the astuteness of its comments on art and character and the exemplary, strangely serene spirit with which Sinyavsky accepted his terrible fate. A memorable and unique document."--Kirkus ReviewsAndrei Sinyavsky writes fiction, essays, and criticism under the name Abram Tertz. He now teaches at the Sorbonne. His book Strolls with Pushkin was recently translated into English and published by Yale University Press.

A Voice from the Chorus

Biographies & Memoirs

A diary format is adopted by the Russian author to relate his meditations on religion, myths, sex, literature, and art while imprisoned in a Soviet labor camp because of his political dissidence

Voice from the Chorus (English and Russian Edition)

Octagon Books

the FIRST BOOK WRITTEN INSIDE A SOVIET LABOR CAMP

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Little Jinx

Contemporary

Quartet Encounters

Abram Tertz is the pseudonym of Andrei Sinyavsky, the exile Soviet dissident writer whose works have been compared to fabulists like Kafka and Borges. Tertz's settings are exotic but familiar and as compelling as those of lunatics and mystics. This edition contains the nightmarish "Pkhentz," a story missing from the first English edition.

Fantastic Stories

Northwestern University Press

The Makepeace Experiment

Little Jinx is a canny mockery of the Soviet world. Its author, Andrei Sinyavsky, a respectable member of the USSR's Institute for World Literature, was exposed in 1965 as the real author of a series of irreverent essays and fantastic tales that had been circulating under the nom de plume Abram Tertz. After five years in a labor camp he immigrated to Paris. Little Jinx is the tale of a man named Sinyavsky, a literary hack and runt who clumsily survives repression and anti-Semitism but also brings misery to those around him. When this "little jinx" inadvertently causes the death of his five brothers, he is consumed by a guilt that seems universal in his society.

Little Jinx (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory)

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Makepeace Experiment

Goodnight!

Strolls with Pushkin (Russian Literature and Thought Series)

A Voice from the Chorus

Voice from the Chorus (English and Russian Edition)

A Voice from the Chorus

Little Jinx

Fantastic Stories

The Makepeace Experiment

Little Jinx (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory)